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Film Studies

Film Studies Programme

The course outline and info on Film Studies modules can be found below. For further details regarding the Film Studies undergraduate programme including guidelines, regulations and procedures please check the Programme Handbook available for download here.

 

Graduate Attributes for Film Studies

Film Studies Programme Handbook

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Information on a wide range of topics, such as course modules, assessment and student welfare.

The table  sets out the pattern of courses that make up the Keele Undergraduate Film Studies degree. (navigate via the module codes for further information)

Not all courses will run every year, and some courses will run in different semesters to those advertised here.

Level One Structure

AUTUMN SEMESTER

SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Core Module: 
ENG-10024 : Reading Film

Programme Core Module: 
ENG-10025 : Approaches to Film

Programme Elective:

ENG-10026 : Reading Literature

ENG-10028 : Telling Tales: An Introduction to Narrative Fiction

MDS-10008 : Mediated World

MDS-10009 : Digital Video

MDS- 10013 : Popular British Cinema: From the 90s to the present day

MUS-10037 : Introduction to Music Theory

Programme Elective:

AMS-10024 : New York, New York: An Introduction to American Culture

ENG-10027 : Becoming a Critic

GER-10043 : Germany through the lens

MDS-10010 : Understanding Culture

MDS-10011 : The Photographic Message

MDS-10012 : Introduction to European Cinema

MUS-10042 : Analog and Digital Audio

Level Two Structure

AUTUMN SEMESTER

SPRING SEMESTER

Programme Core Module:

MDS-20025  : Gender and the Cinematic Gaze

Programme Core Module:

MDS-20026  : Film Genre, Narrative and the Star

Programme Electives:

AMS-20060 : Hooray for Hollywood? Approaches to American Film

ENG-20036 : Twentieth Century Novels into Films

MDS-20027 : Nosferatu to Saw: Horror Cinema in Social Context

MUS-20047 : Unheard Melodies? Music in the Narrative Film

Programme Electives:

AMS-20061 : Alfred Hitchcock's America

ENG-20031 : French Cinema

MDS-20017 : Politics and Cinema

 

Level Three Structure

AUTUMN SEMESTER

SPRING SEMESTER

one of the following:

ENG-30025 : Shakespeare on Film

or

MDS-30006 : British Society through the eyes of British Film: 1960s to the present

or

MDS-30009 : Asian Cinemas

and:

ENG-30053 : Postmodernism: Fiction, Film and Theory

or

MDS-30007 : Screening Sexualities: Spectatorship, Spectacle and Specificity

or

MDS-30014 : Representing the Self, Family and Society on Contemporary British and American Television